Dick Durbin: “You are dancing on the head of a pin here… We have these survivors who have the courage to come before this Committee…”

We urge you to expeditiously approve the pay increase that was rightfully earned by our Nation’s hardworking air traffic controllers.

Through these hearings, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is intentionally overcrowding dockets with little notice to immigrants in an effort to manufacture significant numbers of removal…

Courtrooms handling upwards of 150 respondents in a judge’s morning docket raise serious concerns about whether individuals are receiving a meaningful opportunity to be heard.

Senator Duckworth and I helped to secure $18.3 million in federal funding for the Southern Illinois Multimodal Station to better connect families, students, and small businesses to local and national destinations.